The Peg ṅṃi Sutta (SN 20:7)
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('â', Summoner.â Whenever Summoner was split, the Dasṅrahas inserted another peg in it, until the time came when Summonerâs original wooden body had disappeared and only a conglomeration of pegs remained. [The Commentary notes that the drum originally could be heard for twelve leagues, but in its final condition couldnât be heard even from behind a curtain.] "In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who wonât listen when discourses that are words of the Tathṅgata—deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness—are being recited. They wonât lend ear, wonât set their hearts on knowing them, wonât regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering. But they will listen when discourses that are literary works—the works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples—are recited. They will lend ear and set their hearts on knowing them. They will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering. "In this way the disappearance of the discourses that are words of the Tathṅgata—deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness—will come about. "Thus you should train yourselves: ),
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('â', We will listen when discourses that are words of the Tathṅgata—deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness—are being recited. We will lend ear, will set our hearts on knowing them, will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.â Thatâs how you should train yourselves." See also: ANÂ 5:79 - --> - - - -